"Our findings provide an evidence-based impetus to move away from the hierarchical league table culture promoted by media outlets, the government, and universities. Rather, there are good reasons to concentrate on the contributions to learning and research provided by the two institutional groups we have identified [...]."

#UniversityRankings #UKUniversities #indicators #HigherEducation

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/09/11/what-would-honest-university-rankings-look-like/

We’ve teamed up with Aleksandra Swatek and our conversation is out in “Higher Education”! We talk about two books, “Complaint!” by
Sara Ahmed and “Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia” co-edited by Julie Hansen and Ingela Nilsson.

Early version of the text (free): https://stanislawkrawczyk.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Swatek-Krawczyk-Speaking-truth-to-power-2023.pdf

Final version (paywalled): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-023-01059-z

“Experiences…” in OA: https://brill.com/display/title/63141?language=en

#academia
#power
#abuse
#highereducation
#university

UK Uni Crisis

“The UK is on the brink of a nationwide degree scandal with no engagement from university management, who have abandoned academic standards, and no intervention from the government in sight.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/12/pandemic-a-levels-marking-boycott-university-degree

@ucu
@ucupostgrads

#HigherEducation #HigherEd #UCU #UCUStrike #UCURising #MAB #SettletheDispute

UK Universities Crisis News

Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-65848504

https://twitter.com/ucuedinburgh/status/1666827337046937601

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23563818.fears-raised-quality-checks-amid-university-marking-boycott/

https://www.palatinate.org.uk/breaking-durham-ucu-to-strike-in-june-and-september-over-marking-boycott-pay-deductions/

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/06/06/up-to-1000-expected-to-join-march-opposing-university-job-losses-on-saturday/

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12977/Strike-ON-tomorrow-at-University-of-Westminster-over-100-pay-docking

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#UCU
#UCUStrike
#MAB
#UCURising
#SettletheDispute
@ucu
@ucupostgrads

UK Uni Crisis

Edinburgh University quickly regrets asking its students to “reach out” to them over the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott after releasing a video designed to reassure them.

After receiving the comments below, the Uni quickly disabled the comments feature and deleted the comments!

https://thetab.com/uk/edinburgh/2023/06/02/edinburgh-university-urges-students-to-reach-out-with-marking-boycott-worries-then-deletes-comments-83969

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#UCU
#UCUStrike
#MAB
@ucupostgrads
@ucu

UK Uni Crisis News:

The info at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QiKGF3M_OgGiLihxFHwyhX0MqWADCuEitSGtAV6ON9A/edit#gid=0 shows UK universities are adopting a wide range of responses to the UCU Marking and Assessment Boycott, with many imposing < 50% pay deductions or time limits on 50% deductions:

🔹 Liverpool Hope: 35%

🔹 Aston: 25%

🔹 Open Uni: 20%

🔹 Hertfordshire: % based on actual workload

🔹 Kings College: 20 days’ limit on 50% deduction

🔹 Ulster: 0%

🔹 London Metropolitan: 0%

🔹 Queen Margaret: 0%

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#UCU
@ucu @ucupostgrads

Check out the new book by Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard:

Careers of the Professoriate – Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK

#HigherEducation #DiscourseStudies @sociology @linguistics

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-25241-9

Check out the new book by Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard:

Careers of the Professoriate – Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK

#HigherEducation #DiscourseStudies #

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-25241-9

Staff at the University of Newcastle went on strike today to express their anger that their vice-chancellor is trying to bypass their union and use new industrial relations laws to force through unfair pay and working conditions.

#UONStrike
#WeAreUon
#HigherEd
#HigherEducation

Vice-Chancellor Salaries

More than half of New South Wales vice-chancellor salaries go up as their university’s financial performances go down!

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/01/nsw-vice-chancellors-get-big-pay-bumps-despite-universities-plunging-into-the-red

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd

Open letter to @TheGuardian_uk in which signatories express concern at the adoption of “examination mitigation policies” by many UK universities in response to the @ucu marking and assessment boycott.

“Universities should meet with the unions and settle the dispute, so that students can graduate with complete degrees.”

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWBz-d8iuq9bdH4Ik24wqe-lnkQJz0-mK43YWpJGPyqkYmew/viewform

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#UCU
#UCUStrike
#MAB
@ucupostgrads

Open letter to The Guardian in which signatories express concern at the adoption of “examination mitigation policies” by many UK universities in response to the @ucu marking and assessment boycott.

“Universities should meet with the unions and settle the dispute, so that students can graduate with complete degrees.”

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWBz-d8iuq9bdH4Ik24wqe-lnkQJz0-mK43YWpJGPyqkYmew/viewform

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#UCU
#UCUStrike
#MAB
@ucupostgrads

Australian Vice-Chancellors Get Advice on How to Dodge Pay Rise Negotiations

Leaked advice to Australian Vice-Chancellors explains on how to navigate industrial relations with their staff, including by-passing negotiations with unions and waiting for arbitration in order to “redress [water-down] poor clauses into community standards.”

#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
@ucu

It's been a month since I originally reported this issue that my university's bookstore contractor and IT office are publishing incomplete book lists for classes. Still not fixed. At this point, I have my first class affected by this issue starting in a month. I keep having to bother one of my vice chancellors about it, which is a waste of both of our time. #HigherEd #HigherEducation #ProfLife

It's been a month since I originally reported this issue that my university's bookstore contractor and IT office are publishing incomplete book lists for classes. Still not fixed. At this point, I have my first class affected by this issue starting in a month. I keep having to bother one of my vice chancellors about it, which is a waste of both of our time. #HigherEd #HigherEducation #ProfLife

A student said they wished the little wizard in the cave that helps you on your quest was real and I said, oh the wizards are very real! They're in the libraries!

#libraries #librarian #literacy #highereducation

Reading over my student evaluations. Dear students, the reason I teach you so many amazing skills is because of #anthropology not despite it. You don't have to major in business and frankly most people are better off without it. My bachelors #anthropology alums have great jobs in businesses as data scientists, research reps, and executive leadership #HigherEd #HigherEducation #ProfLife

RT @guildeu
"The AU-EU Innovation Agenda is a game changer because of its ambition to create #equitable #university partnerships in an unequal world," says Peter Maassen, Professor in #highereducation studies at @UniOslo @UniOslo_UV in an article on #EUAU university collaborations by… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646814789010595840

The first set of slides for my two brand-new classes are ready and I am very excited to meet the students from the University of Cologne later today! This summer semester, I'm teaching an Intro to stats and #dataviz for #linguistics using #Rstats and a project-based seminar on #CorpusLinguistics for discourse analysis. 🤓 #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

Many UK university staff will stop marking students’ work from 20th April onwards

The marking boycott is part of the University and College Union’s strike action for better pay, pensions, and working conditions in an increasingly desperate higher education system.

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/12868/Marking-and-assessment-boycott-called-from-Thursday-20-April

#News
#ucuRISING
#ucuStrike
#HigherEducation
#HigherEd
#AcademicChatter
@academicchatter
@academicsunite